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Introduction – Preparing for Collapse

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A modern day Hari Seldon, Peter Dawe forsees the complete unravelling of our global order and the way of life we take for granted. According to his complex systems modellers at exoshock, the major disruptions to our global political, social, environmental and economic systems, heading straight towards us, are practically unavoidable due to a combination of rapidly approaching resource constraints, climate disruptions and political inertia.

But although he predicts that collapse is inevitable, he’s also determined to reduce the fallout by establishing a community in a remote corner of East Anglia that, while initially small, will serve as a seed which – over the next 1000 years – will ultimately grow into, and form the epicenter of, a stable, flourishing, harmonious order spanning across the whole globe and operating in line with historical and natural principles.

On the one hand, the modellers at exoshock will labour to understand the precise form which the dynamics of the disruptions we are due to face in the future will take, along with the optimal initial conditions for the seed community design to enable it to successfully develop into a new stable and benign world order. On the other hand, the community in East Anglia will strive to develop the capabilities and conditions that are necessary and optimal for it to “weather the storm” of the challenging future circumstances we are destined to face and successfully persevere, grow and develop in accordance with the plan.

I’m entitling this blog Chronicles From Terminus after the planet where the first Foundation in Isaac Asimov’s novels was based as I find the parallels between ExoShock and the Community and the First and Second Foundations in Asimov’s Foundation saga quite striking. Peter Dawe’s motivation to both simulate the collapse and use that knowledge to plot a trajectory for a small community to shorten the dark ages and chaos that follows also bear an uncanny resemblance to the goals and strategic approach pursued by Hari Seldon and his team of psychohistorians.

A further uncanny parallel is how a series of crises propel the Foundation that Hari Seldon founded on Terminus to Galactic prominence and how Peter Dawe also forsees a series of crises propelling his foundation in East Anglia to future global prominence.

Summary of Foundation Plot
Foundation Trailer
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What Kind Of Society Would You Like To Build?

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One of our long term objectives is to turn Socibuild into a kind of “community sandbox” to enable motivated groups of people, who want to pioneer new and better ways of living, with the land and raw materials they need to build their own community along with legal advice on how they can most closely realise their vision while also complying with the laws and regulations of the locality they plan to inhabit.

Through providing the initial financing and advice for community projects, and eventually profiting through the real estate appreciation that successful communities produce, Socibuild intends to eliminate a major barrier that many people, who would like to start new societies, encounter: namely, a lack of resources and support. Someday, we would like Socibuild to evolve into an organisation that can help the founders of new communities turn their visions into reality.

For the time being, however, we’ve decided to start the “Your Community” blog where anyone is welcome to publish articles about the kind of community they’d like to inhabit.

What would be your ideal community?

What would the houses look like? Would there be private gardens, public spaces or both? What would people grow in their gardens? How would the gardens be designed? What kind of activities would people engage in? Sports? Theatrical Plays? Dances? Group songs? Book Clubs? Meditation? Informal Social Gatherings? What kind of social norms would your ideal community have? What kind of meals would be prepared? How would children in your community be reared?

If you have a vision for creating a better community and a better way of life, or any views about the kind of community you’d like to inhabit, or of changes or improvement you’d like to make to your existing community, feel free to contact us and submit a guest post to Socibuild’s “Your Community” blog. We’d be happy to consider it for publication.